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G. DYER Tr. & E; DRAKE. BOOT AND SHOE HEEL.

No. 67,422. Patented Aug. 6, 1867.

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C. DYER, JR, AND ELLIS DRAKE, OF STOUGHTON, MASSACHUSETTS.-

Letters Patent No. 67,422, dated August 1867;

IMPROVED Boer mosses-HEELS.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAYCONCERN Be it known that we, C. DYER, Jr., and ELLISDRAKE, of Stoughton, Norfollz county, Massachusetts, have invented a newand useful improvement im Boots and Shoes and we do herebydeclare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description thereofi whichwill enable others skilled in the art to 'inake and use the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part of thisspecification.

The present invention consists in providing the heel of a boot or shoewith aseries of India'rubber or other elastic studs, which are firstsecured to a metallic plate, and then by such plate fastened to theunder or the ordinary treading surface of the heel. This invention alsoconsists in the useof a metallic shank piece that is applied and securedto the boot or shoe-sole in a novel manner, as will be hereinafterparticularly described. In the accompanying plate of drawings ourimprovement in boots and shoes is illustrated.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the treading surface of a boot orshoe heelmade according to the present inven- Figure 2la'central longitudinalsection.

Similar letters of reference indicate-correspondingparts.

A, in the drawings, represents the boot or shoe-heel, to the treadingsurface B ofwhich a plate, C, is secured by means of a centre-screw orbolt, D, screwing by its inner end into the screw-nut E, fixed inposition upon the inside of the heel. This plate Q is provided with aseries of India-rubber or other elastic studs, F, which are headed atone end, 4}, and by such headed ends held in the openings H, made in theplate C'to receiveJhem I, the metallic shank piece, which forms acontinuation of the screw-nut E for the bolt D.

Among the many advantages secured by our improvement in boot andshoe-heels may be here mentioned that it issimplo, strong, cheap,practical, and durable; that it imparts a safe and sure footing or treadto the boot or shoe.

We claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent The elasticstuds Fin the perforated plate 0, clamped by their heads G- between suchplate and the treading surface B of the boot-heel by means of thecentre-screw D fitting into the nut E upon. the shank I, all constructedand arranged as herein set forth for the purpose specified.

The a'bo'vc specification of our invention signed by us this 17th day ofDecember, 1866.

0. DYER, JR.,

I ELLIS DRAKE. Witn esscs JJ L. Drsa, H. T. Lrrrmrxnnn.

